New Pathetique for Piano by a Published ComposerOne of the best piano pieces by American composer Webster Young. He has written more than 40 piano works - as well as operas, ballets, and orchestral works. The recording is at CDbaby.com under "Webster Young". The sheet music is available at Musicnotes.com DVDs on Young (documentary films) are at the Documentary online store.

Raff - Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 185 - Part 1/3Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 185 I. Allegro II. Andante quasi larghetto III. Finale: Allegro Composer: Joseph Joachim Raff (1822-1882) Performer: Michael Ponti (piano) & Hamburg Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Richard Kapp Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. He was largely self-taught in music, studying the subject while working as a schoolmaster. He sent some of his piano compositions to Felix Mendelssohn who recommended them to Breitkopf and Härtel for publication. They were published in 1844 and received a favourable review in Robert Schumann's journal, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, which prompted Raff to go to Zürich and take up composition full time. In 1845, Raff walked to Basel to hear Franz Liszt play the piano. After a period in Stuttgart where he became friends with the conductor Hans von Bülow, he worked as Liszt's assistant at Weimar from 1850 to 1853. During this time he helped Liszt in the orchestration of several of his works, claiming to have had a particularly big part in orchestrating the symphonic poem Tasso. In 1851, Raff's opera König Alfred was staged in Weimar, and five years later he moved to Wiesbaden where he largely devoted himself to composition. From 1877 he was the first Director of, and a teacher at, the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. There he employed Clara Schumann and a number of other eminent musicians as teachers, and established a class specifically for female composers (this was at a time when women composers were not ...

More Classical WhistlingWhistling a classical improvisation. I don't listen to much classical music, but I do find myself doing classical sometimes when I whistle. This song, or at least portions of it, seem to be a sort of whistling waltz. People usually think of Jazz, blues, or rock when they hear the word "improvisation," but I think you can improvise in any musical style. I enjoy a little classical improv when I'm whistling. I'm not nearly as good as Geert Chatrou, but I still endeavor to whistle the best I possibly can. My Facebook: www.facebook.com My album of whistling music on iTunes: itunes.apple.com

Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1 ( Orchestra )Title: Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1 ( Orchestra ) From Wikipedia, The Gymnopédies, published in Paris starting in 1888, are three piano compositions written by French composer and pianist, Erik Satie. These short, atmospheric pieces are written in 3/4 time, with each sharing a common theme and structure. Collectively, the Gymnopédies are regarded as the precursors to modern ambient music[citation needed] - gentle yet somewhat eccentric pieces which, when composed, defied the classical tradition. For instance, the first few bars feature a disjunct chordal theme in the bass - first, a G-major 7th in the bass, and then a B-minor chord, also in the lower register. Then comes the one-note theme in D major. Although the collection of chords at first seems too complex to be harmonious, the melody soon imbues the work with a soothing atmospheric quality. Satie himself used the term "furniture music" to refer to some of his pieces, implying they could be used as mood-setting background music. However, Satie used this term to refer to only some of his later, 20th century compositions, without specific reference to the Gymnopédies as background music. From the second half of the 20th century on, the Gymnopédies were often erroneously described as part of Satie's body of furniture music, perhaps due to John Cage's interpretation of them.

Sonata in C by Jesse L on classical guitarwww.jesseguitar.com I am doing a practice run of Mauro Giuliani's Sonata in C for my Music Solo exam(for VCE),two more months to go,that's a big day for me. ---------------------------------- Welcome to join this group in YOUTUBE "Guitar Tips and connections" www.youtube.com

Classical Music 101: Horror and SuspensePopular classical music used in horror and suspense films. Thirty to sixty second clips of 12 popular classical selections. Song List 1. "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565" by JS Bach. Movies Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Fantasia GremlinsII Rollerball Sour Grapes 2000 Leagues Under the Sea 2. Mozart's Requiem in D Minor, K626, Dies Irae Movies Amadeus The Big Lebowski 3. Verdi's Requiem, Dies Irae 4. Carl Orff's "O Fortuna" in Carmina Burana. Movies The Doors Excalibur Natural Born Killers 5. Mussorgsky's Night on the Bald Mountain Movies: Asylum 6. Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King Mood: Sneaking Around and Stalking This well-known piece has seen extensive use in movies and commercials, usually in accordance with an ominous event. In the Hall of the Mountain King was famously used in the 1931 film M, in which Peter Lorre's character whistles it. The song also appears during the teaser trailer of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Funny Games, Bride Wars and Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian. It is also played over the end credits of the Woody Allen film Scoop. 7. PROMETHEUS by Alexander Scriabin 8. LA MER (The Sea) by Claude Debussy, 'Dialogue du vent et de la mer' (Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea) 9. THE MIRACULOUS MANDARIN by Bela Bartok, perhaps one of the most truly terrifying works in the classical repertoire. With shrieking strings, extended trombone glissandi and a chilling wordless chorus. 10. 'Mars, the Bringer of War ...